Acclaim to Publish Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers

Share.

Airborne: Liberation gets a new name and a publisher.

By David Adams

Acclaim Entertainment Inc. announced today that it will be publishing BattleBorne Entertainment's first title, Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers (formerly known as Airborne: Liberation) in June of this year. The game has been announced for the Xbox and PlayStation 2.

Combat Elite lets players join the ranks of the 17,000 U.S. and British paratroopers who led the Allied invasion of France in World War II, and supported the eventual assault on the beaches of Normandy. The game will feature over 40 missions, single-player and two-player cooperative play, and a character development system that lets players rise up in rank, adding new skills and abilities.

Apart from the new name, there aren't too many new details on the title. We do know that it runs on a version of Snowblind Studio's engine, the beauty that runs the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series, as well as Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, and will share those titles' isometric top-down perspective.

Combat Elite's developer, BattleBorne Entertainment, is made up of developers who formerly worked on titles such as Fallout 2, Ghost Recon, and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. Not a bad pedigree at all.

Further details about Combat Elite are likely to appear on the official website, which for right now is fairly sparse. Of course, we'll also bring you more on the title as information comes in.